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Jerusalem Will Be Destroyed

 “And you, O son of man, take a sharp sword. Use it as a barber's razor and pass it over your head and your beard. Then take balances for weighing and divide the hair. ² A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are completed. And a third part you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city. And a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them. ³ And you shall take from these a small number and bind them in the skirts of your robe. ⁴ And of these again you shall take some and cast them into the midst of the fire and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will come out into all the house of Israel.

⁵ “Thus says the Lord God: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her. ⁶ And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes. ⁷ Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, and have not^[a] even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you, ⁸ therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I, even I, am against you. And I will execute judgments^[b] in your midst in the sight of the nations. ⁹ And because of all your abominations I will do with you what I have never yet done, and the like of which I will never do again.¹⁰ Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds. ¹¹ Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord God, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will withdraw.^[c] My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity. ¹² A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.

¹³ “Thus shall my anger spend itself, and I will vent my fury upon them and satisfy myself. And they shall know that I am the Lord—that I have spoken in my jealousy—when I spend my fury upon them. ¹⁴ Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of reproach among the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by. ¹⁵ You shall be^[d] a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations all around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious rebukes—I am the Lord; I have spoken— ¹⁶ when I send against you^[e] the deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you and break your supply^[f] of bread. ¹⁷ I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will rob you of your children. Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I am the Lord; I have spoken.”

Footnotes:

1. Ezekiel 5:7 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac lack not
2. Ezekiel 5:8 The same Hebrew expression can mean obey rules, or execute judgments, depending on the context
3. Ezekiel 5:11 Some Hebrew manuscripts I will cut you down
4. Ezekiel 5:15 Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, Targum; Masoretic Text And it shall be
5. Ezekiel 5:16 Hebrew them
6. Ezekiel 5:16 Hebrew staff

Cross references:

1. Ezekiel 5:1 : See ch. 2:1
2. Ezekiel 5:1 : Ps. 57:4; Isa. 49:2
3. Ezekiel 5:1 : [Isa. 7:20]
4. Ezekiel 5:1 : [ch. 1:3; 44:20; Lev. 21:5]
5. Ezekiel 5:2 : See ver. 12
6. Ezekiel 5:2 : [ver. 5; ch. 4:1]
7. Ezekiel 5:2 : See ch. 4:8
8. Ezekiel 5:2 : [ver. 10]
9. Ezekiel 5:2 : ver. 12; ch. 12:14; [Jer. 9:16]
10. Ezekiel 5:3 : [Jer. 40:6; 52:16]
11. Ezekiel 5:4 : [Jer. 42:18; 44:14]
12. Ezekiel 5:5 : [ver. 2; ch. 4:1]
13. Ezekiel 5:5 : [ch. 38:12]
14. Ezekiel 5:6 : See ch. 16:47, 48
15. Ezekiel 5:6 : [See ver. 5 above]; [ch. 38:12]
16. Ezekiel 5:7 : Ps. 2:1; 46:6
17. Ezekiel 5:7 : ch. 16:47
18. Ezekiel 5:7 : [ch. 11:12]
19. Ezekiel 5:8 : See ch. 13:8
20. Ezekiel 5:8 : ch. 11:9; 16:41; 23:10
21. Ezekiel 5:8 : ch. 22:16
22. Ezekiel 5:9 : [2 Kgs. 21:12, 13; Lam. 1:12; Dan. 9:12]
23. Ezekiel 5:10 : See Jer. 19:9
24. Ezekiel 5:10 : [See ver. 8 above]; ch. 11:9; 16:41; 23:10
25. Ezekiel 5:10 : ch. 12:14; 17:21; 22:15; 36:19; Deut. 28:64; Jer. 9:16; 15:4; Zech. 2:6; [ver. 2; ch. 36:19]
26. Ezekiel 5:11 : See ch. 16:48
27. Ezekiel 5:11 : ch. 8:3, 5, 6; 23:39; 2 Chr. 36:14; Jer. 7:30
28. Ezekiel 5:11 : ch. 11:18
29. Ezekiel 5:11 : ch. 7:20; 11:18, 21
30. Ezekiel 5:11 : ch. 16:27
31. Ezekiel 5:11 : ch. 7:4, 9; 8:18; 9:5, 10; [Jer. 21:7]
32. Ezekiel 5:12 : [ver. 2; ch. 6:11, 12; Jer. 15:2]
33. Ezekiel 5:12 : [ver. 2; ch. 6:11, 12; Jer. 15:2]
34. Ezekiel 5:12 : [ver. 2; ch. 6:11, 12; Jer. 15:2]
35. Ezekiel 5:13 : ch. 6:12; 7:8; 20:8, 21; Lam. 4:11; [ch. 39:25]
36. Ezekiel 5:13 : ch. 36:5, 6; 38:19
37. Ezekiel 5:13 : ch. 6:12; 7:8; 20:8, 21; Lam. 4:11; [ch. 39:25]
38. Ezekiel 5:14 : ch. 6:6; See Jer. 22:5
39. Ezekiel 5:14 : ch. 22:4; Neh. 2:17; Ps. 79:4; Jer. 24:9
40. Ezekiel 5:14 : ver. 5, 6
41. Ezekiel 5:15 : ch. 14:8; Deut. 28:37
42. Ezekiel 5:15 : [See ver. 14 above]; ver. 5, 6
43. Ezekiel 5:15 : [ch. 14:21]
44. Ezekiel 5:15 : ch. 25:17
45. Ezekiel 5:16 : Deut. 32:23, 24
46. Ezekiel 5:16 : See ch. 4:16
47. Ezekiel 5:17 : ch. 14:15; 33:27; 34:25; Deut. 32:24; [2 Kgs. 17:25]
48. Ezekiel 5:17 : [ch. 36:12]
49. Ezekiel 5:17 : ch. 38:22